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FILE This Monday Aug. 5, 2002 file photo shows the turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor is lifted out of the ocean off the coast of Hatteras NC. A century and a half after the USS Monitor sank, the interment of remains of two unknown sailors found in the Civil War ironclad’s turret is bringing together nearly 100 people from Maine to California who have a distant familial tie to the 16 Union sailors who died when the ship went down. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)